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So many functions of iOS are concealed within the Settings application, or require extraneous gestures to perform. There are also so many tweaks and applications in the Cydia store that try to make shortcuts in iOS great, but they lack a major feature – features. This sounds bizarre, I know, but features are the number one thing that most shortcut tweaks and applications lack in the Cydia store.

Coming to the table to compete with all of those shortcut tweaks and applications is a new premium-designed tweak dubbed Deck by iOS developer SBCoders. Just taking a look at the screenshot above, you see the beauty of and work that has gone into Deck. It reminds you of something you would expect right out of Apple themselves, being sleek and simple to use. Deck will set you back just $1.99 to snag a copy from the ModMyi repository of Cydia.

Deck does more than just offer you toggles like SBSettings or IntelliScreenX can, but it also gives you shortcuts for system actions like composing messages and Tweets, launching Siri or the multitasking App Switcher, respringing and shutting down, or even shortcuts for launching up to six applications of your choice. You can customize not only the applications you want to show in Deck, but you can even customize which system shortcuts will appear.

The composition button brings up an iOS-style popup, which gives you the ability to compose Tweets, e-mails, or text messages. The iPhone-shaped button gives you an iOS-style popup with the ability to respring, reboot, power down, or lock the device (put it to sleep). Throughout Deck is an interface of extremely great built quality and animations that only add the icing to the cake. The icons look fabulous and the implementation is stunning.

Deck is opened with an Activator action, which is customizable from the Settings application after you install it from Cydia. I recommend the slide status bar to the left action because it matches very well with the animation of launching Deck as it swings in from the left side of the screen when you launch it. The full Settings pane for Deck is shown below:

From the Settings pane you can enable and disable Deck at your leisure, choose which interface will appear first when you launch Deck, pick your Activator action for launching Deck, choose which music application on your device will be launched by Deck, and last but not least pick your six actions or applications for the Deck shortcut section.

At the moment, the 3G toggle is a pseudo-toggle that will take you to the Settings application. The reason for this is because SBCoders released Deck early due to high demand and has yet to finish the toggle. The 3G toggle will work like any other toggle as soon as SBCoders releases the next update. Another thing to be aware of is after installing Deck you will need to disable and then re-enable it and then pick a music application for it to work. This is a small glitch, which will be addressed in the next update.

I remember the days when SB settings provided all you need. Now there are so many tweaks that provide the same functionality. I would love to install this but I already have 3 tweaks that take care of most of this stuff....

I only have one page of apps, so i use three activator actions "Slide In Gesture" From Screen Right, Right-Bottom & Right-Top. And to stop the page from bouncing i use pagelock since i also have nospot. Now it works PERFECTLY with deck's animation.

Suggestion for developers of app if it possible to make when deck opens to start with toggle swicher because for some people it more important to fast turn on wifi then feature like respring, and one more question does anyone know what is theme used in this preview of Deck.

Suggestion for developers of app if it possible to make when deck opens to start with toggle swicher because for some people it more important to fast turn on wifi then feature like respring, and one more question does anyone know what is theme used in this preview of Deck.

Can anyone get Deck to show with the status bar gestures? It wont show for me.

I could get it to work by holding the home button but not status bar swiping

Pretty sure I had it workin on swipe left or right but it was finicky because if you swipe a little bit down it opens NC instead of the activator gesture... But I have had to respring once or twice for changes to take affect.